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Resolution of Birthmothers in Confidential, Time-Limited Mediated,
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Healing
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Michelene K Davidso, Progress: Family Systems
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National Adoption Information Clearinghouse, September 2004
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Wendy Jacobs B.Sc, B.A
Psychological Disabilty in Women who Relinquish a Baby for Adoption
John T. Condon, Medical Journal of Australia
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Separation
Loss in Searching BirthMothers
Davis, Carol E. Elgi, Casa Western Reserve University
1990
(link is to abstract, but ful
ltext is available as a PDF download from there)
By Benedict Carey, New York Times March 24,
2005
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Pearila Brickner Namerow, Debra Kalmuss, and Linda
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The
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Wiley, Mary O'Leary; Baden, Amanda L.2002
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Trina L. Hope, Esther I. Wilder, and Toni Terling Watt,
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